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Anybody who'se been following whats been transpiring in Indian sports will know what I am talking about when they look at my title.

So India's best performance in the Olympics has been a gold and two bronzes. Its funny how unattainable a gold seemed when we reached the silver after two straight olympics of Bronzes, and how a gold and two bronzes seems like pittance.

But thats a very good thing, because it shows that our appetite seems to have been whetted. Now that the individual gold is under the belt, people want more, and more importantly, people know it can be done.

I haven't been following cricket at all, India is currently playing Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, and to tell you the truth, I really didn't even try to watch a match or even the highlights. Maybe its the MBA school effect, but more than that, i am sure is was our expectations in the Olympics.

I know I hated the games because of the entire hyprocricy involved in the entire thing, this supposed to be China's coming out party and all that bull, and as expected, nothing like that has happened. Whoever said that China would be forced to be more human rights friendly because of the games was probably paid by the Chinese to say so or was a naive little deer.

Anyways, with the Commonwealth Games coming up in New Delhi in 2010, our athletes will be kept on their toes, probably in the same, substandard training facilities our great nation has to offer them, and then it will on to London 2012. In between will the Asian Games in 2010, I think again in China.

Nothing would make me happier to see India high up in the medals tally in 2010 and 2012, but what I would rather see is a revolution in Indian sports that drives away all the netas from the sports associations and all players and athletes forming player associations that will turn an individual sportsperson into a stronger body with a stronger voice. Thats the only way to fight the system.

I salute our sportsmen who fight opinions and judgements to focus on their game and give it their best. This nation can take nothing away from you guys. You guys are heros, all of you who wear the India logo on your chest.